CVE-2024-26828 cifs: fix underflow in parse_server_interfaces()

2024-04-1709:43:52

Linux

www.cve.org

linux kernel

underflow vulnerability

buffer loop

size mismatch

type promotion

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: fix underflow in parse_server_interfaces()

In this loop, we step through the buffer and after each item we check
if the size_left is greater than the minimum size we need. However,
the problem is that “bytes_left” is type ssize_t while sizeof() is type
size_t. That means that because of type promotion, the comparison is
done as an unsigned and if we have negative bytes left the loop
continues instead of ending.

CNA Affected

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    "programFiles": [
      "fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c"
    ],
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